Edge of Tomorrow

Live-Action Film Fandom
Name:	Edge of Tomorrow
Abbreviation(s):	EOT
Director:	Doug Liman
Production companies:	Village Roadshow Pictures, RatPac-Dune Entertainment, 3 Arts Entertainment, Viz Productions and TC Productions
Release date:	May 28, 2014 (London IMAX) June 6, 2014 (United States)
Genre:	action, science fiction
Country:	USA
External links:	Official Website at Wikipedia
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Edge of Tomorrow aka. Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow is a 2014 science fiction film starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. It is adapted from the 2004 Japanese light novel All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka and features a one-day time loop where the protagonist Major William Cage (Cruise) is sent back in time every time he dies after a confrontation with an invading alien force. Joining alliances with the Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Blunt) they try to defeat the enemy using knowledge gained from reliving day after day over and over again.

Fandom

The fandom is primarily het. The most popular ship is William Cage/Rita Vrataski, and Arthur Hendricks/Rita Vrataski also has a small following.

Despite being a small fandom (less than 140 works on AO3 as of January 2022), Edge of Tomorrow is recognized as a fusion tag. Further, roughly a third of the works on for Edge of Tomorrow on AO3 are crossovers or fusions.

Example Fanworks

Fanfiction

Gen and Het

• Double Reset by Believe24
• You don't know me But I know you by jin0uga. (2014)

Femslash

• Trade All My Tomorrows by whetherwoman. (2014)

Crossovers and Fusions

• The Great Redeemer by Remnant Stars. (2015) A Pacific Rim fusion that places Rita and Cage in the setting of Pacific Rim.
• Full Metal Bitch by freudensteins_monster. (2017). An Avengers fic inspired by Edge of Tomorrow.

Links & Resources

• Edge of Tomorrow at Archive of Our Own
• Edge of Tomorrow at FanFiction.Net
• Edge of Tomorrow tagged on tumblr.